Confirming this, I hit this all the time. From experience, it doesn't freeze, just make it *incredibly* slow, After leaving it for 10-20 mins I saw the text move every 5 minutes or so but then got bored. I'm not sure it's a firefox bug but I can't reproduce this is any other application under kde.
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Text drag and drop causes system freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293930 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs